Kevorkian Freed as Non-Supporter Posts Bail to End Media Attention

A lawyer who does not condone Jack Kevorkian’s role in assisted suicides put up $2,000 to bail him out of jail Monday so the retired pathologist would not get so much attention.

John A. DeMoss, who posted the $2,000 in cash for the $20,000 bond, said he is sympathetic to terminally ill people who want to end their lives but does not support Kevorkian and his backers.

“I think they’ve reduced the issue of suicide and assisted suicide to a hysterical bunch of rhetoric that has no meaning,” DeMoss said from his office in Mt. Clemens. “If I can get him out of jail and get those people to stop protesting in front of the jail and saying ‘free Jack’ and so forth, then I think my $2,000 is well spent.”

Kevorkian, who went to jail Friday rather than post bond himself, said he was disappointed to be leaving but “there’s no way I could refuse. That would be unconscionably headstrong.”

Later Monday at a news conference in the Southfield office of his attorney, Geoffrey Fieger, Kevorkian said he expects to be jailed again within days, this time for his role in the death of an Ann Arbor woman at his Royal Oak apartment.

If jailed again, Kevorkian said he would resume the juice and water fast he began Friday to protest being taken into custody.